THE MILITARY IN POETRY AND FICTION

11:00 am - 11:45 am
| Location of Session: East Terrace
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 12:00 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

US Army veteran Matt Gallagher draws on his time in Ukraine for his latest novel, Daybreak. Vincent Cooper’s Infidelis is a powerful collection of poetry that delves into the life of a Chicano outcast, drawing from the author’s personal experiences as a United States Marine. These two authors will talk about writing as veterans, and idealism and its costs.

About the Authors

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Vincent Cooper

Vincent Cooper

Vincent Cooper is the author of Where the Reckless Ones Come to Die and Zarzamora – Poetry of Survival. Cooper’s poems can be found in Huizache 6, Huizache 8, riverSedge, Somos en escrito, Dryland Lit. He is the co-editor of the poetry anthology Good Cop/Bad Cop. He is also a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Cooper is a former United States Marine currently living in the southside of San Antonio, TX. His latest poetry collection is Infidelis.

Photo Credit: Melissa Lukenbaugh

Matt Gallagher

Matt Gallagher is a US Army veteran and the author of four books, including the novel Youngblood. His work has appeared in Esquire, ESPN, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Wired, among others. A graduate of Wake Forest and Columbia University, he is the recipient of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship, a Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellowship, and was selected as the 2022 Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum Writer-in-Residence. He lives with his family in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His latest novel is Daybreak.

Moderator

Sarah Colby

Sarah Colby has an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems gathered from her experiences and travels as a military spouse. Wife of a reluctantly retired Army Chaplain and mother to a son in the Navy, Sarah lives in San Antonio, Texas, where she mentors veteran/military writing groups and teaches in community-based writing programs.